Community Event - Peterborough/Lindsay - Artsweek presents Cognitively Nuanced

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COGNITIVELY NUANCED: NEURO-DIVERGENT PERSPECTIVES ON A BURGEONING URBAN LANDSCAPE

 

Artists: Melissa Addison-Webster, Kay’la Fraser, Fraser McDonald, Wes Ryan, and members of the Brain Injury Association Peterborough Region

 

These are Horizon Days and The Brain Injury Association of Peterborough Region (BIAPR) have partnered to present Cognitively Nuanced, a multidisciplinary exploration of lives lived with traumatic brain injury (TBI). A workshop series delivered prior to Artsweek invited members of the BIAPR to navigate Peterborough through verse, comedy, and sculpture and to create works that reflect their experiences. Through poetry, dance, visual art, and photography, members share what it is like to move within and access Peterborough’s urban spaces.

 

Exhibition Opening – painting, sculpture, photography, and performance

1 p.m.–3 p.m.

Saturday, September 22

Brain Injury Association Peterborough Region (BIAPR)

158 Charlotte St.

 

On Saturday, September 22, the Brain Injury Association Peterborough Region opens its doors to exhibit works of painting, sculpture, and photography. A soundscape of members’ voices and abstract sounds will form the backdrop in the gallery space while audiences engage with a brain-map of Peterborough. The event will also feature short performances that share what it is like to live with TBI. Artworks from the exhibition will be displayed in the street-facing windows of BIAPR for the duration of Artsweek.

 

Appendages in Relation to the Body (Revisited) – dance performance

 

Tuesday, September 25, 2 p.m.–2:30 p.m.

Thursday, September 27, 2 p.m.–2:30 p.m.

Peterborough Square Courtyard

360 George St. N

 

What props us up as we move along? This performance highlights the grace within pedestrian movement and challenges perceptions of how bodies are ‘supposed’ to move. Featuring Wes Ryan’s comic celebration of TBI, The Helmet Duet, and an original piece choreographed by Melissa Addison-Webster and members of the BIAPR, Appendages reveals that it’s impossible to remain static on a planet in motion.

 

Brainstorm (cliché title subject to change) – poetry reading and chapbook launch

1 p.m.–1:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 26

Peterborough Downtown Farmers’ Market

Charlotte St.

 

BIAPR members perform pieces of spoken word, individually and as a group, outside the BIAPR on Charlotte St. during the Peterborough Downtown Farmers’ Market. Created over a series of workshops lead by award-winning artists Fraser McDonald and Kay’la Fraser, the poems explore a number of themes related to life with TBI. A chapbook of the poems will also be available for purchase.

 

Artsweek in partnership with These are Horizon Days and the Brain Injury Association Peterborough Region.

 

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Artsweek presents Cognitively Nuanced
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Poetry, dance, visual art, and photography by members of
the Brain Injury Association of Peterborough, Sep 22-27
Full details at artsweekptbo.com
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